The headlines in Serbian media about French President Emmanuel Macron closing EU’s door to Serbia are not correct, says French Ambassador Frederic Mondoloni.
Macron told the European parliament on Tuesday that he will “only support an enlargement when there is first a deepening and a reform of our Europe.”
Speaking on Wednesday, Mondoloni added that he “respects freedom of the press – but the headlines in Politika and Novosti (dailies) are not correct.”
He said that France supports the accession of Serbia and the Western Balkans to the European Union without any ambiguity.
“France wants the EU to reform, this is the essence of yesterday’s speech. Macron said there should be two parallel lines. The first – connecting the Balkans with Europe and the other – France will strive for (EU’s) enlargement simultaneously with its reform,” said the ambassador.
Mondoloni added that Macron “wants to launch this initiative because he doesn’t want to belong to a generation of people who burying their heads in the sand.”
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